January Mobile Rankings: GooglePlay Overtakes iOS in Germany and Spain

In January, the level of spending on mobile games held on to the level reached during the holiday season, when spending jumped 20% in December. Illustrative of the continued growth in smartphone and tablet gaming is the fact that mobile gamers spent $300 million more this January than they did just half a year ago (June).

Supercell and King continue to ride this wave best, consistently topping the top publishers ranking. During Supercells reveal of their $892 million revenues in 2013, the publisher announced that its third game, Beach Boom, will hit stores this March following successful tests in Canada and Australia. Kings latest game released from Facebook to mobile, Farm Heroes Saga, has entered the top 10 grossing ranking in most app stores with Papa Pear Saga following at a distance.

Earlier than anticipated, GooglePlay has surpassed iOS game revenues in two key European markets: Germany and Spain. This is remarkable considering that when iPhone, iPad and GooglePlay revenues are aggregated, GooglePlay takes 36% of combined European revenues and 33% of US revenues. Still, the rise of GooglePlay in the US was enough to push it past Samsung’s home country of Korea on overall game revenues.

The key rank changes for iOS and GooglePlay games as well as publishers are described below.

iOS Games

Clash of Clans is holding on as the top performing iOS game this month, with King’s Candy Crush Saga still in second position. The remainder of the top 5 is unchanged with Hay Day, Puzzle and Dragons and Game of War- Fire Age claiming the next 3 positions.

Notably, Farm Heroes Saga from King, which was released mid-December, has debuted at number 11 in the charts. This is the 5th title in King’s Saga series for mobile. Other new entries include 全民飞机大战 ( National Aircraft War), 天天飞车 (Car Racing Everyday) and 戦国炎舞 -KIZNA- (Battle in Warring States) at positions 16, 17 and 20 respectively.

There are now 7 Asian titles in the top 20 – the highest of any month to date.

iOS Publishers

On the publisher side, the top 2 swapped positions this month with King now at the top spot and Supercell taking second place. King’s success was no doubt aided by their new title “Farm Heroes Saga”. EA remains at number 3 followed by GungHo Online and Kabam.

Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co.Ltd have jumped 5 places to number 9 thanks to the success of 天天酷跑 (Cool Running Everyday). Glu Games have jumped three spots to number 17 while Square Enix have re-entered the charts at number 20.

GooglePlay Games

Clash of Clans regained the top spot in the Playstore game charts, having lost it during the holiday period to Candy Crush Saga, which now sits at number 2. Puzzle & Dragons is still at number 3 while (Monster Taming) for Kakao fell from number 4 to number 7.

Supercell’s second hit title Hay Day, which debuted last month at number 12, has already climbed to number 5 in the rankings. ブレイブフロンティア【無料本格RPG-ブレフロ】 (Brave Frontier) from Alim Co., Ltd. has climbed an impressive 11 places to number 9.

軍勢RPG 蒼の三国志 (Military Potential of the Three Kingdoms) from COLOPL, Inc. is new at number 11 with Empire: Four Kingdoms, Farm Heroes Saga, ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル (Love Live!) and Castle Clash also making debuts this month.

GooglePlay Publishers

Looking at the publishers, King are still at number one this month but rival Supercell has now climbed 2 places to take the second spot. This is an impressive feat from the Fininish publisher who released their titles on Android in October and December of last year. Last month’s number 3 , CJ E&M corp, has fallen to number 6.

The biggest climb up the charts came from SUNDAYTOZ, INC who jumped from 18 to 11 and IGG.COM who climbed 5 spots to number 10. Alim Co., Ltd. re-entered are new at number 20 with Russian developer Social Quantum Ltd. re-entering at number 16.

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